Eva Brennan, 39, of Rathgar, County Dublin, went missing on Sunday, 25th July 1993 after leaving her parents’ home in Terenure, South Dublin and walking the 15-18 minute distance back to her apartment at Madison House on Rathgar Road.
Her missing person cold case is often included in Ireland's so-called Vanishing Triangle of women who went missing on the East coast of Ireland from the early to late 1990s.
Eva was formally reported missing to An Garda Siochana on Tuesday, July 27th by her father Davy Brennan when relatives had not heard from her since the recent Sunday afternoon.
While it is believed Eva did return to her apartment on the Sunday afternoon, because the jacket she was wearing to her parents’ house was later found in her apartment, no witness sighting or CCTV footage recorded her on the journey home.
A delayed missing person inquiry was opened in the first week of her disappearance, thorough and forensic searches (of land and water) for Eva in the locales of Rathgar and Terenure did not begin for many weeks later. Much of the initial search was conducted by Eva’s family and friends. No trace of Eva Brennan was ever found or what her exact movements were, exchanges with other people, from about 2.30 pm on Sunday July 25th, 1993.
In later years, her family would be highly critical of the delayed official search.
The initial investigation focussed on Eva’s state of mind and the potential that An Garda Siochana, rightly or wrongly, believed they were most likely dealing with a tragic case of suicide or that Eva had disappeared by choice. It would be nearly three months before gardai began to examine other possibilities.
After more than 30 years, no trace of Eva Brennan has ever been found, nor an identified motive for her disappearance.
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